Cantonese Dining at Lung Hin

Treat yourself to an elegant Chinese meal to welcome the Year of the Dog

There was little question we would choose Cantonese cuisine as the target of our next culinary quest to celebrate Chinese New Year. The challenge is always deciding which to select amongst so many worthy options. We only not aim to just dine, but also aiming to transport ourselves to new dining experience like sitting in a time machine.

Lung Hin – a Cantonese restaurant located at 44th level of the five-starred Marco Polo Ortigas Manila in bustling Manila serving exquisite Cantonese food and fresh seafood made by its own Hong Kong chefs.

Lung Hing’s décor is elegantly modern Chinese, its seating is spacious and comfortable, its service is attentive and friendly, and its dishes are prepared exquisitely for flavour and presentation. Under the helm of the Chinese Executive Chef, Lai Cheuk Kou (we known him as Chef Terry), it introduces a new selection of authentic Cantonese dishes, together with the classics with its new a la carte menu, from his 36 years of experience from different well-known restaurants and hotels around China and Hong Kong.

Dishes selected were carefully screened to provide only the ones that pleases the palates, while bringing authenticity and fine experience at each taste.

Lung Hin’s Prosperity Toss with Salmon Yu Sheng

Yu Sheng or Yee Sang (popularly in Malaysia and Singapore) is basically a Chinese salad dish with raw fish/jelly fish and a special sauce, while Lo Hei is when you toss the salad as high as possible using chopsticks while shouting out good stuff you hope would happen in the coming year.

For those of you who are wondering why we play our salad during Chinese New Year, check our video below.

*The fruits and salad around represents the gems in life
*The salmon represents abundance in life
* Adding kalamansi / lemon juice for the healthiness of your life and your family
* Add ground peanuts represents a home filled with gold and silver, eternal youth, longevity in life
* The sesame seeds represent flourishing of business.
* Add oil which represents money flowing in from all direction, increasing the profit 10,000 times
* Pepper represents silver dusts, more money and things of value
* Crispy wantons represents gold bars or more wealth throughout the year
* Add sweet plum sauce represents sweetness of your love life, and to your family as well.
Then toss yee sang higher doing it 7 times while shouting "lo hei yee sang" to represents high prosperity and abundance.

Lung Hin’s Peking Duck with Osmanthus Jelly on Potato Chip

Lung Hin’s Steamed Shrimp dumplings with Gold Leaf

Our lunch started with the Lung Hin’s appetizer, the Prosperity Toss with Salmon Yu Sheng, and tasty Peking Duck with Osmanthus Jelly on Potato Chip, and some Steamed Shrimp dumplings with Gold Leaf.

The perfecting blends of various auspicious ingredients, and the sweetness of Lung Hin’s yu sheng promises a good year ahead. The peking duck’s meat is so-tasty and perfectly balances with the osmanthus that is good in my mouth. Of course it is hard to miss the famous steamed shrimp and its auspicious gold leaf, which I truly enjoyed with served jasmine tea.

Lung Hin’s Sauteed Tiger Shrimp Ball in Supreme Chicken Stock

Lung Hin’s Double Boiled Chicken with Red Dated and Wolfberry

A light soup followed, the Sauteed Tiger Shrimp Ball in Supreme Chicken Stock. The soup base is flavourly but light, and really helps to cleanse the palate, and the shrimp meat is also appetizing. Next served was Double Boiled Chicken with Red Dated and Wolfberry, a light tasty dish that was quickly devoured, and the sweetness of date is very enticing.

We also had Pan Fried Grouper Fillet with Truffle Oil and Sugar Peas, which is very mouth-watering, the followed by the Pan Fried Crispy Egg Noodle with Prawn Ball and Minced Pork, served with Hong Kong Dried Sausage and Waxed Meat Fried Rice, both filled me up so nicely.

Lung Hin’s Braised South African Abalone with Supreme Oyster Sauce

Then finally, they served us the Lung Hin’s newest dish, the Braised South African Abalone with Supreme Oyster Sauce, another auspicious dish of this year.

The abalone is considered to be a fine ingredient in the world of culinary, which are indulged only in special occasions due to limited supply and with utmost preparation, thus it commands a high value. The abalones are rich with multiple health benefits which includes strengthening of immune system, eyes, liver, kidneys and others.

Lung Hin’s Nian Gao, the Pan Fried Two Flavoured Chinese New Year Cake

To round out the meal, Pan Fried Two Flavoured Chinese New Year Cake was served. It is one of the auspicious cake in every Chinese New Year and a celebration isn’t complete without it. Also called nian gao (or “year cake”), which symbolizes higher income, a higher position, good growth of the children, and generally a promise of a better year ahead.

It is evident that Lung Hin’s year cake are lovingly prepared and enjoyed by everyone – a fitting way to end a delicious meal.

Each year it is also significant to have those nian gao for your family or as gifts for your friends and business partners. This symbolic delicacy from the finest ingredients with a stylish collection to enjoy.

Double Happiness Koi Nian Gao

Traditional Round Nian Gao

Choose between the Double Happiness Koi Nian Gao, which includes two (2) pieces of the cake in orange and coconut flavor at Php 1,388; and the Traditional Round Nian Gao, with a choice of ube or brown sugar flavor, for one (1) piece per box, at Php 988. These delights are available until February 21, 2018.

For a memorable dining experience of elegant setting, attentive service, exquisite classic dishes and promising good luck, Lung Hin is hard to beat.

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I work with a Cantonese woman at work and she's always bringing in traditional food for lunch. I can't eat most Cantonese food being a vegetarian but it does always smell good haha. I'm glad you had a lovely time. x

Wow! There is such a great Chinese dining in Manila. And yeah, we Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore love yee sang during Chinese New Year. It symbolize fortune for us. But wait, I have not lou sang even now is already the second day of CNY!

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